Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 76:1 (2021) 117–62A Pernicious Gang: Ōshio Chūsai and the Prosecution of Heretics in Late Tokugawa JapanJames McMullen
MN 68:2 (2013) 233–80Kanokogi Kazunobu: Pioneer of Platonic Fascism and Imperial Pan-AsianismChristopher W. A. Szpilman
MN 68:1 (2013) 79–88Of Allochthons and Alibis: Otherworldly Ideologies in Seventh- and Eighth-Century JapanDavid B. Lurie
MN 64:1 (2009) 83–125Clerical Demographics in the Edo-Meiji Transition: Shingon and Tōzanha Shugendō in Western SagamiBarbara Ambros
MN 62:1 (2007) 75–86A Plan for Tasks at Hand: Aizawa Seishisai’s JimusakuDonald Keene- MN 62:1 (2007) 80–86A Plan for Tasks at HandAizawa Seishisai, Translated by Donald Keene
MN 61:3 (2006) 375–406The War Over the Kyoto SchoolJohn C. Maraldo
MN 61:2 (2006) 227–42Kokugaku vs. NativismMark Teeuwen
MN 60:4 (2005) 481–514Rationalizing the Orient: The “East Asia Cooperative Community” in Prewar JapanHan Jung-Sun
MN 59:4 (2004) 525–533Paradigm Regained: Taking Syncretism SeriouslyD. Max Moerman
MN 59:2 (2004) 223–44Medieval Experience, Modern Visions: Women in BuddhismRajyashree Pandey
MN 58:1 (2003) 103–16Identity, Nihonjinron, and Academic (Dis) honestyIan Reader
MN 57:3 (2002) 349–58The Ambiguous Legacy of Modern Japanese PhilosophyJohn C. Maraldo- MN 57:3 (2002) 359–72The Polymorphous Canon: Identity and InventionPaul Gordon Schalow
MN 55:3 (2000) 429–39Nativism RestoredJohn Breen
MN 54:4 (1999) 509–520Itō Jinsai and the Meanings of WordsI. J. McMullen
MN 54:2 (1999) 247–58Approaches to Ogyū Sorai: Translation and TransculturalizationW. J. Boot
MN 53:1 (1998) 45–71Philosophy and Inflation: Miki Kiyoshi in Weimar Germany, 1922–1924Michiko Yusa
MN 52:1 (1997) 35–58Dissent from Within: Hasegawa Nyozekan, Liberal Critic of FascismMary L. Hanneman
MN 51:3 (1996) 309–16Nishida and HearnMichiko Yusa- MN 51:3 (1996) 313–16Tanabe Ryūji, Koizumi YakumoKitarō Nishida, Translated by Michiko Yusa
MN 51:1 (1996) 81–105The Nishida Enigma: ‘The Principle of the New World Order’Yoko Arisaka- MN 51:1 (1996) 100–105The Principle of the New World Order: Sekai Shin-Chitsujo no GenriKitarō Nishida, Translated by Yoko Arisaka
MN 49:2 (1994) 139–65The Political Thought of Nishida KitarōPierre Lavelle
MN 48:3 (1993) 293–314The Persecution of Confucianism in Early Tokugawa JapanBeatrice Bodart-Bailey- MN 48:3 (1993) 337–57Scholarship and Ideology in Conflict: The Kume Affair, 1892Margaret Mehl
MN 46:2 (1991) 203–209Nishida and the Question of NationalismMichiko Yusa
MN 44:1 (1989) 75–97Modernism Minceur, or Is Japan Postmodern?David Pollack
MN 39:3 (1984) 233–60Sexy Rice: Plant Gender, Farm Manuals, and Grass-Roots NativismJennifer Robertson
MN 38:3 (1983) 283–94National Morality and Universal Ethics: Ōnishi Hajime and the Imperial Rescript on EducationSharon H. Nolte- MN 38:3 (1983) 289–94The Imperial Rescript on Education and Ethical TheoryHajime Ōnishi, Translated by Sharon H. Nolte
MN 36:1 (1981) 37–54Hirata Atsutane and Christian SourcesRichard Devine
MN 35:1 (1980) 89–98Concrete Discourse, Manifest Metaphor, and the Tokugawa Intellectual ParadigmHarold Bolitho
MN 34:4 (1979) 479–88The Place of Gukanshō in Japanese Intellectual HistoryH. Paul Varley
MN 32:1 (1977) 1–34The Gokurakuji Letter: Hōjō Shigetoki’s Compendium of Political and Religious Ideas of Thirteenth-Century JapanCarl Steenstrup- MN 32:1 (1977) 7–34The Gokurakuji LetterHōjō Shigetoki, Translated by Carl Steenstrup
MN 30:2 (1975) 177–91Chu Shun-Shui, 1600–82: A Chinese Confucian Scholar in Tokugawa JapanJulia Ching
MN 30:1 (1975) 19–35Nichiren and Nationalism: The Religious Patriotism of Tanaka ChigakuEdwin B. Lee
MN 29:4 (1974) 381–413Mori Ōgai’s Response to Suppression of Intellectual Freedom, 1909–12Helen M. Hopper
MN 29:2 (1974) 199–224The Early Liberal Thought of Tokutomi Sohō: Some Problems of Western Social Theory in Meiji JapanJohn D. Pierson
MN 29:1 (1974) 83–91Nationalist Revolution in JapanMarlene J. Mayo
MN 28:2 (1973) 151–75Nishi Amane and the Reception of Western Law in JapanRichard H. Minear
MN 27:1 (1972) 85–92Seiyō Gakushi no Setsu: The Theories of Western PhilosophersTakano Chōei, Translated by Gino K. Piovesana
Monographs (1970) 1–146Distinguishing the Way: BendōSorai Ogyū, Translated by Olof G. Lidin
MN 25:3/4 (1970) 249–66Katō Kanji (1884–1965) and the Spirit of Agriculture in Modern JapanThomas R. H. Havens- MN 25:3/4 (1970) 447–53Utopianism and Social Planning in the Thought of Kagawa ToyohikoGeorge Bikle
MN 24:4 (1969) 353–71Early Meiji Liberalism: An AssessmentMikiso Hane- MN 24:4 (1969) 467–98Yōkyoku ni arawareta rinri shisō: Japanese Ethical Thought in the Noh Plays of the Muromachi PeriodWatsuji Tetsurō, Translated by David A. Dilworth